Week in Photos

A worker carries a piece of cork after harvesting it from the trunk of a cork oak in Girona Pyrenees mountain.

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An activist of the ruling Congress party throws a stone at an auto-rickshaw during a statewide strike to protest against the clashes between police and the party workers during a rally in Bhubaneswar, India.

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A vendor selling pork sleeps while still holding onto her knife at a market in Beijing.

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Polo player Rob Brockett and his horse Pachu take a tumble in the surf as they practice on the beach in Newquay, England.

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Children and their parents learn traffic safety at a primary school in Shenyang, China.

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Four-year-old boy Judd, left, jumps from the top of a rock amongst 3,000 flags at a memorial honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, set by students and staff on the campus lawn of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.

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An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Biswakarma at the artisan village, known locally as Kumartoli. Biswakarma is the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, and will be worshipped across the country on September 17.

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Palestinian police clash with demonstrators during a protest near the municipal building in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian demonstrators — fed up with high prices and unpaid salaries — shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank on Monday in the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history.

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An elderly man sits on a toy horse in Beijing. China.

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A Yanomami child cleans the feet nails of another at Irotatheri community, in Amazonas state, southern Venezuela, near the Brazil border. The Venezuelan government on Friday agreed to lead a delegation of national and international media to Irotatheri after a slaughter of 80 Yanomami natives was reported. Venezuelan militarymen detected evidence of illegal mining in the south of the country, where Yanomami natives would have presumably been massacred by illegal Brazilian gold prospectors.

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A Bangladeshi river gypsy woman works on her boat as a boat man attempts to make his way through water hyacinth on the Buriganga river in Dhaka.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, helps to prepare the runway while Diane Von Furstenberg watches before her Spring 2013 show during Fashion Week in New York.

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Indian Hindu devotees perform evening rituals as they take holy dips in the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.

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A couple pose for photos as a man sleeps on a pier in Vladivostok, Russia.

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Indian coast guard performs operations to put out a fire out on the merchant vessel M.V. Amsterdam, in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India. According to reports, the ship M.V. Amsterdam was carrying hazardous material.

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A demonstrator dressed as a clown rides a bike as riot police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest marking the 1973 military coup, in Santiago.

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Pakistani children play cricket in the monsoon rain in Karachi. At least 78 people have died and dozens more injured in torrential rains and flash floods that have wreaked havoc in Pakistan over the past three days.

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Forensic policemen collect evidence at the site of a car bomb attack targeting the motorcade of the country’s defense minister in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemeni officials say a car bomb targeting the motorcade of the country’s defense minister has killed several people, but the minister escaped unharmed.

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Homeless people sleep at the Komolapur railway terminal in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Gallery employee Maddy Adeane looks at Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup II” (1969) at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Fifty years after artist Andy Warhol created one of the art world’s most iconic images with his red and white painting of a tomato soup can, the company that inspired the work is selling limited-edition soup with designer labels.

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A boy cries over the coffin of Patrick Machado, 16, one of six teenagers found dead in Mesquita, during their funeral in Nilopolis, Rio de Janeiro. The bodies of the six youths age between 15 and 19, missing since Saturday, were found naked with signs of torture wrapped in sheets in the suburb of Mesquita. According to relatives of the youths, the group were in Mesquita for a kite festival and went missing after they decided to visit a waterfall near the Chatuba slum, which is dominated by a drug gang.

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A village boy pumps water from a tube well for a friend to drink on the banks of the River Kuakhai on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

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A firefighter from the St. John’s Fire Department shields his face against high winds after checking on the driver of a tractor trailer that had been blown over by winds from post-tropical storm Leslie in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Tropical Storm Leslie’s stiff winds and heavy rains lashed Newfoundland as the storm made landfall Tuesday, knocking out power in several towns and forcing the cancellation of all flights at the island’s main airport.

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Afghan boys play football on a hill in Kabul.

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Men riding horses and holding spears are seen next to a bull during the ‘Toro de la Vega’ bull spearing fiesta in Tordesillas, near Valladolid, Spain. The festival is one of the oldest in Spain with roots dating back to the fifteenth century. The bull has to be enticed across the river from the village to the plain before it can be killed to honor the ‘Virgen de la Pena’.

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Nepalese student activists shout slogans during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and against the hike in the fuel price in Kathmandu.

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Lighting illuminate the sky over Munich, Germany.

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Remains of a bus is seen at the site of an accident near Plampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. At least 34 people were killed when the bus fell into a mountain gorge in northern India after it crashed late night into a 700-metre deep ravine in the Kangra valley.

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A ‘Colla’ build a human tower or ‘Csastell’ during a mass protest calling for independence during the Catalonia’s National Day in Barcelona, Spain. Thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona demanding a split from Spain and control of their own economy under the slogan ‘Catalonia: New European State’ on Catalonia’s National Day.

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Pakistani rescuers carry a shoe-making factory worker after a sudden fire trapped dozens of workers in the factory in Lahore. At least 21 workers were killed and 14 wounded when fire gutted the shoe-making factory in the eastern city of Lahore.

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Firefighters, soldiers and volunteers try to extinguish a wild fire in a rural zone nearby Quito, Ecuador. Quito’s mayor Augusto Barrera declared the state of emergency after near 3,000 acres of urban and rural woodland have been affected by some 2,000 wild fires.

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Libyan civilians help an unconscious Chris Stevens, at the US consulate compound in Benghazi . Stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in an attack on the US consulate.

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A woman sits on a grass-made sofa in Frankfurt, western Germany. The so-called “Main-Sofa” was initiated by Federal Minister for Environment Puttrich to highlight the upcoming event “Day of Sustainability.”

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Indian commuters on rickshaws and scooters wait in a traffic jam at a bottleneck in the street in New Delhi, India.

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A DC-10 tanker jet drops a load of fire retardant on the north side of Casper Mountain as a wildfire continues to burn in Casper, Wyo.

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People flee the flooded areas after torrential rains triggered flash floods in outskirts of Jaffarabad, Pakistan. Torrential rains in Pakistan have caused at least 80 deaths and left hundreds homeless.

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President Obama makes a statement on the violence in Libya as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

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A girl looks at lanterns as she visits the Shanghai International Lantern Festival in Luxun Park. According to Chinese tradition, people try to solve puzzles on lanterns, eat Yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and enjoy family reunions during the festival.

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A single woman pushes a bachelor riding in a shopping trolley at the “adopt-a-guy” (adopte-un-mec) store in Paris. The boutique, with a short-term lease which expires at the end of the week, opened its doors on Tuesday, promising a high-end shopping experience for women searching for Mr Right.

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A Buddhist novice monk walks inside a monastery that farmers are using as a protest camp in Monywa township, Myanmar. Villagers protested against the seizing of over 7,800 acres of farmland, involving 26 villages, for a copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township.

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Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Some youths, aged between 12 and 23 years old, in Gaza are training in parkour which was developed in France. Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Training is held in cemeteries, and in former Israeli settlements.

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A soldier from the 1st Platoon, Delta Coy, 1-64 AR of the US army – operating under NATO sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) shares grapes with boys from the local Pashtu tribe after an ISAF night patrol came under small-arms attack a few nights before, at a settlement near Kandahar Air Field.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Ryan Klorman, (L) and Markus Adams, relax on inflatable pool toys in floodwater in a parking lot at UNLV in Las Vegas. Intense thunderstorms drenched parts of the Southwest on Tuesday, delaying flights and stranding motorists in the Las Vegas area and flooding two mobile home parks in Southern Calif.

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Philip Schiller the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc. speaks on stage during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 at an Apple event in the at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

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Designer Betsey Johnson goes into a split after doing a cartwheel on the runway after the Betsey Johnson Spring 2013 collection show during Fashion Week in New York.

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Suspect Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez (R), alias “El Molca “, gestures while being presented to the media at the federal police headquarters in Mexico City. Mexican police have arrested Pozos Gonzalez, a suspected leader and founder of the criminal organization known as “The Resistance” that operates in several states like Jalisco and the state of Mexico.

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Polish acrobatic flight formation team Grupa Zelazny perform during the ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow near Schoenefeld south of Berlin.

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Protesters are arrested by riot police during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is speculation in the state education system.

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Demonstrators stand in the waters of the Bay of Bengal as they shout slogans during a protest near the Kudankulam nuclear power project, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Skimboarders running to the water at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio boasts some of the world’s most stunning urban beaches and they’re worth several visits.

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Thousands of miners of South Africa’s strike-hit platinum belt gather for a rally in Rustenurg, a day after bringing the world’s top producer of the precious metal to a standstill. Workers streamed into a sports stadium at the company’s Rustenburg complex where shuttered entrances to mine shafts were guarded by security men after operations were halted over safety fears.

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US Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) launch rockets into the air during a live fire training exercise in the South Korean border county of Cheorwon. Some 28,500 US troops are based in South Korea under a mutual defense pact to deter against the North Korean threat.

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Afghan military officers stand attention during their graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan,. The process of taking over security from over 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops would be completed by the end of 2014 when Afghanistan will take over the full leadership of its own security duties from US and NATO forces.

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A village farmer inspects an agricultural field on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar. With nearly 70 percent of India’s population living in rural areas, farming is vital to the economy.

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A baby crawls near the door of his house at a shanty neighborhood in New Delhi, India. A report released Wednesday by three United Nations agencies and the World Bank said that child mortality worldwide has fallen 41 percent since 1990 and about half of all child deaths occur in just five countries, India being one of them.

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Villagers from the local Pashtun tribe transport grain through a settlement near the Kandahar Air Field in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Estimates by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are that militia attacks cost between 100 million dollars and 155 million dollars a year to stage while the rest goes to maintaining the insurgency says a new UN report that adds that the Taliban raised 400 million dolallrs last year through taxes, donations, and extorting businessmen and narcotics dealers in Afghanistan.

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An artist with his face painted participates in a protest demanding the safety of artist Manish Harijan and his freedom of expression, near the Kathmandu District Administration Office in Kathmandu.

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Models take to the catwalk during the Bench Underwear fashion show at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. Bench, one of the leading clothing brand in the country on its 25th anniversary in business staged a two nights underwear fashion show.

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President Obama greets supporters after speaking at a campaign rally in Golden, Colorado.

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The Fuego volcano eruption seen from the Palin municipality, Escuintla departament, south of Guatemala City . The volcano has begun spewing lava and columns of ash into the air, and authorities have raised the red alert level in the area.

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Greenpeace activists stand near a stuffed polar bear at a Shell gasoline station in the central Dutch town of Breukelen to protest against drilling in the Artic sea. The organization is blocking some 50 Shell gasoline stations in the Netherlands to protest against oil drilling off the coast of Alaska.

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Anti-Japanese demonstrators wave the Chinese flag as protests continue outside the Beijing Japanese Embassy over the Diaoyu Islands issue, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japanese. Six Chinese ships sailed into waters around a disputed archipelago, with Beijing saying they were there for “law enforcement” around islands Japan nationalized earlier this week.

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Men take shelter under a footbridge in a park during a rain shower in New Delhi. India’s monsoon rains were 31 percent above average in the week to September 5, the weather office said last week, the second straight week of heavier than normal rains, reducing the threat of a prolonged drought in the south Asian country.

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First lady Michelle Obama reacts as she visits with young children in after-school care at the Rappahannock Area YMCA in Spotsylvania, Virginia.

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Fog rises from the valley of Oberstaufen in the German Alps. Meteorologists forecast sunny late summer weather for the upcoming weekend in southern Germany.

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Pope Benedict XVI stands next to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman as he waves to the crowd at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon.

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FSA fighters fire their weapons towards Syrian Army positions from the top of a building in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria.

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A young Indian school boy rides a cycle in the rain in Allahabad, India. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.

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NASA astronaut Kevin Ford attends a training session at the Star City space centre outside Moscow. Ford, together with Russian cosmonauts Evgeniy Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy, is preparing for a mission to the International Space Station.

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A farmer carries his daughter Anna during the so-called Viehscheid return from the mountain pastures near the village of Oberstaufen in the German Alps, southern Germany. During the traditional “Almabtrieb” event, cow herds are brought from alpine pastures, where they stay during the summer, to their stables in the valley.

Firefighters extinguish fire of a burning truck after a serious accident on the A2 motorway between Wollin and Brandenburg, Germany.

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Indian fishermen pull a net they had laid to catch fish in the Arabian Sea in Trivandrum, India.

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An actor dressed as a ghost walks past a “5D haunted house”, which combines locally developed three-dimension projection technology, adding scents and interaction with ghosts and ghouls, at the Hong Kong Ocean Park. The attraction, is part of the preparation for the large-scale Halloween celebrations in Asia. A total of 500 actors will be taking part in the themed attraction.

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A boy sits at his parents’ house, damaged by shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in Talbiseh, near Homs.

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Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney reacts as he is presented with cake from a member of the media who celebrated her birthday on the campaign plane.

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A man is tied up and beaten by the villagers of Tactic in Alta Verapaz region, some 117 miles from Guatemala City. The local community tied up and beat four men who were accused of theft in the aftermath of a school killing, which had occurred on Wednesday. The man, who had entered a classroom and killed two children, ages 8 and 13, with a machete, was lynched and burnt alive by a mob.

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Environmental and social activists from Israel and around the world gather at the Dead Sea for a protest float against the deterioration of the sea condition, Israel. The float was led by the photographer Spencer Tunick to protest the disappearance of the beach where he took his famous photographs last year.

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Team Saxo Bank rider Alberto Contador of Spain celebrates splashing a bottle of cava on a model after winning the Tour of Spain in Madrid.

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A woman cools off in a public shower at Ipanema beach in the south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.